Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-07

of the Hooghiey, and thought he would
ignore the episode Of her presence in his
letters-if it wonld be safe to do so.
"From Port Said I go back to En-
gland" said Miss Tremayne, looking
dreamily over the rolling waters Of the
Channel.
"Would that were going back with
you," said Lonsdsle, thinking of Me-
LAME.
"The wish comes TOO late," replied
Miss Tremayne, with fash through her
hslfclosed eyelids, affecting perhaps to
misunderstood him.
"Wby?"
~ am going back to be married.
SAT last!" said Lonsdale, ignoring the
inference; "but pardon me-What the
deuce have 1 said2"
"One Of those things people had better
leave unsaid," replied the other, with
merry laugh; "but forgive you"
"And congratulate you. Who is the
too happy man, Hilda?"
"One who would resent your address,
ing me by my Christian name"
"Even as an old friend?"
eyes; so all you shall learn is that he
is now in Dublin"
In her extreme vanity, Hilda
too often addressed her in f1ppant kind
OF way, which she deemed rather compli-
mentary than otherwise.
"Wben back in London" said she, after
q smiling pause, 81 shall, of course, have
no end of shopping to do"
Chow l should like TO be there and
accompany you!"
"Why?" she asked, with dropping
eYe!ashes.
Because am anxious to know how
expensive 8 luxury wife is"
"You must look On the land of the
white elephant ere you can think Of that
, now" she replied, with something OF
pique.
"True," said Lonsdale, as his transient
| smile died away. "Object to my cigar?"
be asked after pause.
"Oh, not st ali; I rather like it. On,
{ Captain Lonsdale, shall never forget
| our too delightful row Oh the river that
I iav above Stockencross.
I Lonsdale did not respond; ne could not
, agree with her, as it Led to the only cloud
that ever GENE between himself and
MelGnIe; and he said:
"Permi5 me &c introduce to you young
! D3nvers of the S.h."
"That big boy without 6 moustache?"
''He'll Talk to you about India"
: "India-why, he can't know the differ
| ence between howdah ard Hyderabad,"
said Hilda, with q moue. "No, please; l
: would Ietner talk to you, old friend; and
! now take me to the saloon, the breakfast
, bell has rung."
? So Lonsdale began to find that despite
al the attractive young fellows who were
on board, Miss Tremayne Yves deter
mined to adopt him as her special cav8-
r lier; and the circumstance that she sus-
t pected him OF being engaged to another
lent piquancy to this proceeding on her
s psr:, especially as ne was a handsome
! fellow, V. T.. msr, and there were many
? ladies' of various ages en- board.
d He was ungallant enough to hope that
i Wien the PagOda was fsirly out into mid.
2 channel the mai de mer might relieve hin
g Of this duty; but Hllds had been too Otter
at sea, had yschted TOO much at Cowes
d and elsewhere to suffer from that; anC
i for time-so far as her own sex was
. Concerned-she had the poop and saloor
nearly to herself, and thus the attendance
/ which he could not avoid became more
c requisite than ever, amidst the enforced
d idleness OF bosrdship-tne idle
+ ness that, st times, promotes the
J. keeping Of diaries by those who never
d kept them before, and In which they haG
r nothing now to insert; the idleness, the
g vapidity OF which may be guessed a
n through the reflection of the daily snC
e hourly talk.
u And when Lonsdale, after Malta was ie
e sstern, ended long, long letter to Ne
: LAME, inspired with eloquence By his low
Il of her, and all the tender phrase
e ology that passion could prompf
n to be finally dated and postet
Il at the entrance to the canal, he fel
there was kind of treason in his nerJ o j
= reticence in not trusting her with The
q fact that the the coquettish Hiida Ire
- msyne was, at that moment, seated oppo
"a site TO him, writing, he supposed, to ne
&c intended, poor devil!
=. While the coquettish and flirting Hlld
~ could very little have conceived tina
>. Lonsdale was then inspired only by a.
. intense longing TO reach the shores o
Egypt, when he hoped to zee the last o
= her, she avsiled herself of his services q
io cavalier on every available occasion; bu
:! with sill her undcubted attractions an,
- brilliance, he felt himself ia
from gratifed thereby, and remarke
~ that though she was sort c
IL queen among the young subs and grift
who were going out, Digby Montresso
treated her with extreme coldnese; an
- to Lonsdale's eye, he appeared q change
- and soured man from the once bright an
-, happy fellow he had been. A secTe
- seemed to be weighing upon his mind, an
- to that mis- friend hoped TO f1nd the key il
" time.
- With all her coquettish appropriate
:. of Lonsdale, Hilda Tremsyne was not 6
IN untrue to her usual instincts as to omi
N attracting every other man in the saloor
ne if possible, whether old or young
FL married or otherwise. Thus
group was generally about her
, group Of whom she seemed the sun al
y. =. center. And her letter to her iance Wa
90 no sooner closed, than she betook her
~ ~ self to q game in which she was fond {
u, indulging. Just then-pslmistry- Is:
~ fed society had taken up; aud with tt
az ~ young subs, and their seniors too, 81
-, was ever and anon examining shei
~ ~ digits snd protesting to be great in II
81 Lines Of Life, the Hepetica or Plain
~ Msrs, the Mounts of Venus, the finger
~ under special planetary influence, aad
a. all the ja-gon OF this new study--u
g study it is-amid much banter and MOI
~ increduiity.
IN The gentlemen, however, had not Il
O. slightest objection to submit their hanC
TO the msnipulations OF so fsir-fngere
uas y1le